With the possibility of a majority Parti Québécois government for the first time in almost a decade, federal parties are closely watching the Quebec election. CBC News has learned that earlier this week, when the prime minister and the leader of the Official Opposition met to discuss Ukraine, the prime minister also asked Tom Mulcair for his take on the election.
In all his time as prime minister, Harper has never faced a majority PQ government or the very real threat of a referendum.
Well Stevie, this is the result of you saying "That this House recognize that the Quebecois form a nation within a united Canada."
Never open a Pandora's box, you may not like what's in there waiting to get out.
And the same "attitudes" are what also provoke others in the world when people make hateful comments and jokes about people of other races, religions, lifestyles. They are the purveyor's of hate and are the causes of the resulting actions that follow. There is a black hole of darkness in some people.
Personally I think there is a very fine line when it comes to so-called joking about people and it is often questionable when someone says "oh don't worry they would probably laugh at it themselves". Even I have found myself caught on that fine line years ago when I would joke about a fellow I knew and he laughed and took it well, but then one day someone took me aside and said "I don't think he really likes it". It was one of those moments in life when as I stood in a farm field (where I had been told) that I had a revelation and a good hard look at my own self. I now save my jokes, if they are used if they are used at all, for people I really don't like and I don't care one iota how they feel because if they can dish it out at others, they can take it.
"Joking" has also become something that is used by some people as a form of subtle attack, as well as get others to join in so they don't feel so alone. The best example recently would be those cartoons about Mohammad that ran in Europe and then Levant published them in Canada. They weren't funny, never meant to be funny, they were juvenile and just plain ignorant.
I have decided that praising people who deserve it, if far better than making jokes about them and if you don't like someone don't make jokes either. Instead be honest.
What's the big deal? If anything it will endear him to the average person as opposed to that stuffed shirt who needs a hired 'dresser' to make him look like a cartoon character from the Simpsons before he walks out the door in the morning.
